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Death of Chocolate?

     It's hard to believe but some scientists are claiming that chocolate will become as rare and expensive as caviar in the next 20 years. The study comes from the Ghana-based Nature...

Baked beans sales surge as credit crunch bites

The credit crunch creates lots of losers but winners too and baked bean manufacturers such as Heinz are certainly winners as people look to the relatively cheap but nutricious baked bean to fill the gaps in the...

Help, I'm turning into my mother

"(LifeWire) -- Stacy Pearson keeps buying food she knows she'll never eat -- from tomato soup to green beans to ramen noodles -- merely because it's on sale. Why? Blame her mother. ...

Unease over Guatemalan gold rush

"With gold prices skyrocketing, the Mayans of Guatemala find themselves caught up in a new rush for the precious metal.   Tema sits across from me, a Mayan with a mission. We are in the town of Sipacapa in the Western Highlands of...

Soy-Eating Men Have Fewer Sperm

I've heard about soy consumption leading to an increase in estrogen levels in men, before, but this is the first time I've heard that men who consume a daily amount of soy-based products, including meat...

Three Killed in Haiti Food Riots

As the price of staple goods continue to soar, Haiti is facing a veritable food crisis that is producing social chaos in the region."At least three people were killed and 20 wounded when demonstrations against...

Mission To Haiti : Touching Lives

The Writer Spent a Week in Haiti through this mission (Full disclosure)  Mission to haiti remains the poorest nation in the west.  Mission to Haiti has several programs to change the future of this...

Half cooked beans can be toxic

".. specialists are always careful to tell people to cook meat fully in order to prevent food poisoning or illness. Well, it turns out that this same type of warning should be given about cooking beans. "Red...

Java War Report: Schultz Returns to Starbucks

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is returning to the company in an attempt to restore the premium coffee chain to its former glory.Since flooding the North American market with more than 10,000 of its cafes,...

Eater X: Burrito-Eating Machine

I'm trying to find a photo of Eater X: did he compete in a special mask that allowed for the rapid consumption of burritos?Ah- found one. It's face-paint: good call-- disguise one's true identity and still devour...

Oil, it's ours

This article provides amazing inside into the shenanigans that have and are going on within the Bush regime over the reasons for invading Iraq. It has always been oil. To date 3800 young Americans have been used...

Andrew Flintoff, you are messing with the wrong guy at wrong time

"Andrew Flintoff, you are messing with the wrong guy at wrong time “Jellybeans on pitch irritated Zaheer Khan and he won the match for India. Andrew Flintoff pissed off Yuvraj Singh and poor Stuart Broad and the Entire English team paid the price when Yuvi hit six sixes....

Sexist Monkeys Terrorize Village

    In Nachu Kenya there is trouble stirring, for months the village women have suffered at the hands of a brutal troop. Think it is just the work of another run of the mill African, warlord,...

Canned beans recalled Update 1

Update AP News 34 minutes ago: AP Company Recalls 15,000 Cases of BeansFriday August 3, 9:15 pm ET Wisconsin Company Recalling 15,000 Cases of Green Beans MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin company is voluntarily recalling 15,000 cases of green beans that federal officials...

Beans to the Rescue...What is a Summer Sweet in Japan?

The sweets of Summer in Japan owe as much to bean paste as sugar. See creativity and taste in action. It might not be your taste but this is the world of Wagashi and the five senses.Continue this culinary excursion on Serge the Concierge 

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